Three pop health success stories point to different ways forward for...
As they sort out their population health management efforts, provider organizations are increasingly realizing that they are masters of their own destiny when it comes to value-based care.In the...
View ArticleHTM and IT: Cooperation is crucial in managing medical devices
AnalyticsClinicalElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Medical DevicesMobileQuality and SafetyWomen In Health ITFeeding data directly from a medical device into medical records has reduced errors,...
View ArticleApple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM chiefs head to White House for tech...
Several top Silicon Valley executives including Apple’s Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella – and more are headed to the White House today for the first meeting of the American...
View ArticleUnitedHealthcare ACO partnership gives Aledade a major boost
Aledade is joining forces with UnitedHealthcare, marking its first accountable care program for Medicare Advantage plan members – more than 15,000 of whom could participate in the new...
View ArticleONC updates database of certified EHRs
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology updated its Certified Health IT Product List’s landing page on June 20.The idea is to keep the list current – and easy to...
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HIPAA-Attested Cloud Services: Run Healthcare Workloads in the Oracle Cloud
Sponsor: OraclePrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyAuthor: Jessica DavisSlideshow Image:...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks connects Eagle Physicians with Epic EHR at Novant, Wake Forest...
Troubled EHR vendor eClinicalWorks announced this week that its customer Eagle Physicians & Associates exchanged health data with hospitals running rival Epic’s electronic health record system...
View ArticleMACRA rule adds EHR flexibility, pushes back mandate for 2015 editions
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday delivered a 2018 MACRA proposed rule that would add more flexibility to the health IT mandates associated with the law.The proposal pushes back...
View ArticleTheDarkOverlord leaks celebrity patient data from Beverly Hills provider
The hacker known as TheDarkOverlord released another data dump last night, which contained patient data from California-based Dougherty Laser Vision.TDO made the announcement on his Twitter account...
View ArticleCarolinas HealthCare adds Cerner for population health platform
Health IT giant Cerner will roll out its HealtheIntent population health management platform across Carolinas HealthCare System.The technology will coordinate and manage care for the health system’s...
View ArticleVA secretary to Congress: We don't know what the Cerner EHR will cost
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, MD, told a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday he does not yet know the cost for the new Cerner electronic health record that the VA plans to purchase.While...
View ArticleHow Kaiser Permanente tied its EHR, CPOE and bar code tools together to cut...
Medication errors have dropped and the number of nurses using bar code medication administration systems and physicians using computerized order entry systems has soared at Kaiser Permanente, which...
View ArticleKLAS picks Epic, TeleTracking as top platforms for managing patient flow
Health IT vendor TeleTracking offers this year’s top solution when it comes to managing patient flow, according to a new report by technology ratings company KLAS.EHR giant Epic came in a close second,...
View ArticleEpic partners with Mediware for blood bank tech
EHR maker Epic Systems and blood bank software company Mediware have partnered to provide integrated laboratory and blood bank software.Mediware, which provides blood management and cellular therapy...
View ArticlePenn Medicine deploys enterprise natural language processing platform
The University of Pennsylvania Health System is rolling out a natural language processing platform from Linguamatics Health to build queries and mine insights from its patient encounter records,...
View ArticleMemorial, Orange Care ink population health pact using Epic Healthy Planet
Memorial Healthcare and Orange Care Group revealed a new technology partnership Friday to connect the hospital system with Orange’s accountable care organization and independent physician association...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyAuthor: Jessica DavisSlideshow Image:...
View ArticleEpic to jump into medical billing, currently hiring for new unit
A want ad recently appeared on the website of Verona, Wisconsin-based electronic health record colossus Epic Systems Corp. for "bright, motivated individuals to join our new billing services team as we...
View ArticleInteroperability shouldn't have fueled VA's Cerner decision, HL7 exec says
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announcement in early June that the agency would move its outdated EHR system to Cerner has been received with mixed reviews.While some wonder if Cerner is the...
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